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- Anne Neville (4967 bytes)
1: <b>Anne Neville</b> ([[June 11]], [[1456]] - [[March 16]], [[1485]]) was [[Queen consort]]...
5: Anne was born on [[June 11]], [[1456]], at [[Warwick Castle]], the younger [[daughter]...
19: ... Following their bereavement, Anne effectively adopted her nephew, [[Edward, Earl of Warwick]], and Ri... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...|Hebrew]] '''גּוֹלְדָּה מֵא...
20: ... and was turned down at first, but eventually accepted into the community. Her duties there included ...
24: ...tion. She negotiated with the British, but also kept in contact with the growing guerrilla movement.
30: ...ay, Israel was attacked by joint forces from [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Lebanon]], [[Transjordan]] and [[...
32: ...n Israeli amb Meir hands cert.jpg|thumb|right|[[September 10]], [[1948]]. Ceremony in [[Kremlin]] of t... - Esther (5002 bytes)
2: '''Esther''' ('''אֶסְתֵּר''', [[Standard Hebre...
9: ...of the historicity of the [[Book of Esther]] attempt to derive the name from [[Ishtar]], the pagan god...
16: ...in their captivity, is also manifest from the Scripture account.
19: ...e to individual members of the Harem with the exception of domineering [[Queen consort]] [[Amestris]].
21: .... In addition phonetic difficulties exist in attempting to relate the names Esther and Ishtar, and ham... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...lier appeal]] after her death. Her posthumous reception history is a lengthy one: she was revered by t...
12: ...logians at [[Poitiers]] before granting final acceptance. She was then brought to a succession of tow...
18: ...d Scots. This allowed the Royal army to now attempt a march toward Reims for Charles' coronation.
22: ...t out from [[Gien-sur-Loire]] on [[June 29]], accepting the neutrality of the Burgundian-held city of ...
24: ...Paris. An attack on the city finally came on [[September 8]], but ended in disaster when Jeanne was s... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...s of [[Lebanon]], [[Syria]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel ...
73: ...of [[Nazism]] in [[1933]] and the subsequent attempted extermination of the Jewish people in the [[Sho...
78: ...en-Gurion showed a willingness to essentially accept about 1/3 of the land that would ultimately be wo...
83: ...ict over its status. Immediately following the adoption of the Partition Plan by the United Nations Ge...
86: ... into ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]''. In the news: Egyptian Air Force bombs Tel-Aviv, Transjordan shells J... - Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
15: ...nd expressive painting and popular religious conceptions had considerable influence on the art of Flan...
20: * [[triptych]] ([[1438]]-[[1440]]), [[Berlin Museum]]
23: * [[portrait]] of [[Philip the Good]] (c. [[1456]]-[[1458]]), [[Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kuns...
24: * portrait of [[Charles the Bold]] (c. [[1456]]-[[1458]]), Royal Museums of Fine Arts, [[Brusse...
26: * the triptych from Middelburg, Berlin Museum - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
9: ...lptor [[Phidias]], who also had charge of the sculptural decoration. The [[architect]]s were [[Iktinos...
11: ...ling of the columns as they rise, to counter the optical effect of looking up the temple. The effect o...
17: ...c.parthenon4.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Only a few sculptures remain on the Parthenon.]]
19: ...se survive only in part, but there are good descriptions of most of those parts that have been lost. O...
23: ...were painted bright red and blue, so that the sculptures would stand out in greater relief when seen f... - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
2: ...salem''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: '''יְרוּשָׁל...
18: ...[King David]] defeated the Jebusites in war and captured the city without destroying it. David then e...
24: ...he country rebelled again under [[Zedekiah]], prompting the city's repeated conquest and destruction b...
26: ...eral decades of [[Babylonian captivity of Judah|captivity]] and the Persian conquest of [[Babylon]], t...
36: ...her]] in 335. Jews were banned from the city, except under a brief period of Persian rule from 614-629...
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